Harlingen Air Base
ClosedClosed No longer racing, but some of the track is still there.
- April 4, 1964, race drew 5,000 spectators
- Drew racers from Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico in 1965
- Raced
- 1960-65
- State
- Texas
- What's left
- A good length of the old track surface is still there, in poor to good condition.
- Raced on
- A military airfield
- Surface
- Runway
- Location
- Three miles northeast of Harlingen
- Sanction
- NHRA
- Elevation
- 34 ft (10 m)
- Coordinates
- 26.22546, -97.65573
No records have turned up for this strip’s early years apart from photographs showing drag races on a wide runway at the Harlingen Air Base in 1960-62. The base was three miles northeast of Harlingen. Races in 1964 were NHRA sanctioned. On March 1, 1964, Floyd Head of San Antonio took top eliminator in his AA/FD, and a race on April 4, 1964, drew 5,000 spectators. The January 10, 1965, race brought a big crowd and racers from across Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. At the time a rival strip ran in the south part of Harlingen.
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